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...another example, in the Great Peace March, a walk for nuclear disarmament from Los Angeles to Washington, kicked off by a star-studded concert in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Endorsements by Madonna and Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Negotiation?) proved not quite enough, however. Celebritics requires sustained star power. In part because of celebrity no- shows, the Great Peace March took a wobble last month at Mile 120, in the Mojave Desert. Its chief sponsor collapsed in bankruptcy. But several hundred survivors declared themselves ready to carry on as soon as they could get essential supplies, including, says Spokeswoman Lisa Bell...
...complaint about Big Deal is that for every element that is new, there is something old, something borrowed and something very blue. The plot, about an amiable gang of two-bit black crooks trying to burgle a Chicago pawnshop, is adapted from a 1958 Italian film, Big Deal on Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from the '20s and '30s have...
Glucksman seems totally comfortable as Madonna, her lip-synch numbers are overwhelmingly realistic, as her smug self-indulgence captures that of her musical alter...
...music takes over, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Sting and Madonna help to steal the show. However, the sets don't match the fullness of their music. While some of Keshishian's visual innovations are fun, too many of the numbers are performed against the starkness of a white backdrop...
...jokes aren't stale. The production may not in the end break ground for a new genre. While Keshishian doesn't give us much Bronte, he gives a whole lot of Madonna to whistle on the way home...